a season 2 of Up Here could have explored and developed some very interesting aspects and sides of Lindsay and Miguel and their couple. that and more beautiful numbers and songs and vocals and i can't stop thinking about what those would have been.
i wasn't a huge fan of the pregnancy reveal and cliffhanger, and i would still probably prefer something else, but i do think it has a lot of potential, the more i think about it.
the Lopezes said that, if it had been done, the season would have focused on them as future parents while being completely done with the drama of being together then not then back again of season 1 which sounds so good and healthy and rare for romcoms to me.
Mae also talked about the 9 months of Lindsay's pregnancy being a sword of Damocles for them to learn to be themselves and open up about themselves while preparing to be good parents in a healthy, loving, sincere and rock solid relationship which i love too.
so, can you imagine the interesting things we could have had, and, once again, all with pretty and beautiful songs and numbers and Mae and Carlos.
think Lindsay being confronted with motherhood when she so doesn't want to be like her mother and yet sees herself sometimes becoming way too much like her.
the voices of her parents being an even bigger deal now and Lindsay being in conflict with them now because she really doesn't want to listen to them.
the added information that her parents, her real parents, are not together anymore and she obviously wouldn't want that kind of future for herself and Miguel.
both Lindsay and Miguel and the strong ties they have to childhood and parenthood, the voices of their parents in their heads and the real versions of their parents and how they'd react to the pregnancy, especially such an unexpected one, so soon in their relationship.
think Lindsay and a mother who was too present, too much, too imposing and Miguel and a mother who left too soon, who he missed so much, who he still needs because she was too absent, still is.
them both supporting each other and a lot of them just learning and listening and comforting and secrets shared late at night on the phone and then in person.
think Lindsay and Miguel working on getting the first children's book published and maybe already getting started on a new one that would be a love letter to the baby they're going to have so very soon. songs and numbers that would be sweet lullabies from a mother to her child, a father to his child, parents to their child.
Lindsay would have a new voice instead of Celeste and maybe it would be Ned and she'd bicker more with him and he'd make comparisons with Miguel. it'd have Lindsay get protective and also see how different her relationship with Miguel is to the one she had with Ned, how it's going towards healthy and sincere and sweet and spontaneous and way more sensual too.
Miguel and his newfound passion for art and drawing, or not newfound, found again, and learning to accept and let his love for Lindsay be his inspiration whenever he wants it to be.
Lindsay taking Miguel to skate in Central Park.
Yogurt. lots of Yogurt. Yogurt opening up to Lindsay now that Miguel is doing just that and not being intent on protecting himself around her.
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advice i think we should tell children is that when adults say stuff like ‘now that i’m an adult i get really excited about stuff like coffee tables and bathrooms and rugs etc’ they don’t mean ‘and now i don’t care about blorbo and squimbus from my childhood tv shows anymore’ bc your average adult still loves all the same pop culture stuff they always did; they just have a greater appreciation for the mundane as well. growing up just means you can enjoy life twice as much now. you can get really excited about a new stuffed animal AND about a new kitchen sponge. peace and love
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They have since left four premature babies to decompose on their beds. They have since kidnapped, stripped, tortured civilians and tried to frame them as Hamas fighters for their propaganda. They have since shot people at refugee camps execution style. They have since targeted academics and poets and directors. They have since killed 86 journalists. Still no ceasefire.
psa: i know that many of us did NOT doubt this for a second, neither did i. this is targeted at the people who educated themselves for the first time about this genocide and discovered the absolute horrific things that Israel is capable of doing to Palestinians, with the unwavering support of its allies.
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Danny Phantom, The Show:
geeky kid gets super powers from his parents' weird inventions! now he has to fight a rogue gallery of ghosts... but uh-oh! he still has to keep his grades up, deal with his embarrassing parents, and navigate girl troubles! rap theme song!
Danny Phantom, the Fandom, After 19 Years of Fermentation:
a child dies. but not quite. the inherent tension between life and death. the obsession of the dead for faded remnants of the living. warped green shadows on the walls of a dark laboratory. having to hide your true nature from those who should be your greatest allies. the fear of the monster you could become if you let yourself. being a ghost as a metaphor for the trans experience. a cold breath on the back of your neck in the dead of the night. rap theme song!
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no one talks about the love of your life that you lose when you are still figuring out how to love yourself
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please consider how you engage with aaron bushnell's death. you may react to it as you will, but it's crucial to remember that his death was specifically a call to action. it was not meant solely to shock but to draw attention to a vast moral hypocrisy: that to many, a soldier dying in a campaign backed by the U.S. government is noble, even if the soldier kills innocents to do so, even if the cause is morally bankrupt--but this? this is insanity. a man taking his own life, on his own terms, in an attempt to help others while hurting nobody else, is somehow less rational and more horrifying than the mass killing of civilians.
of course aaron's death was horrific. but as he said beforehand, it is realistically no more horrific than what's happening in gaza. if we can't stomach this, then why can we stomach children being bombed? thousands being starved? for all that self immolation is, it brings death in a matter of minutes. it is a fraction of the amount of pain, fear, and grief that people in gaza are experiencing. it's just that we are able to quantify it. and this tiny, quantifiable sliver of horror is still so unbelievably awful. how can anyone bear to think about anything else when this horror is happening a millionfold in palestine? this is the question aaron bushnell was asking. and he wanted you to face it, head-on, watching him burn to death.
I've been seeing people make fanart. minimalist graphics to sell on t-shirts. to commodify his death, to mythologize it not a day afterwards, is not only in poor taste but a hindrance to his message. the answer is not commodification, nor is it defeatism, nor is it rejoicing in his death. if you want to honor aaron's legacy, take action. channel your horror and your outrage into making a material change. this wasn't about him. this was about palestine. remember that it was always about palestine.
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